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The facility was commissioned to replace the aging Llwynypia Hospital in the town. [1] The new facility, which was designed by Nightingale Associates [2] and built by Cowlins on the site of a former coal mine at a cost of £36 million, opened in January 2010. [3]
An infirmary was added in 1909 and it had become a general hospital by 1927 [2] before joining the National Health Service as Llwynypia Hospital in 1948. [1] As the only village with maternity facilities in the Rhondda, most residents from the area over the last century have Llwynypia as their place of birth on their birth certificates. [ 3 ]
Llwynypia (Welsh: Llwynypia [ˌɬʊɪnəˈpiːja]) is a village and community (and electoral ward) in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, near Tonypandy in the Rhondda Fawr Valley. . Before 1850 a lightly populated rural farming area, Llwynypia experienced a population boom between 1860 and 1920 with the sinking of several coal mines after the discovery of large coal deposits throughout the Rhondda Va
Rhondda / ˈ r ɒ n ð ə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr, 'large') and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach, 'small') – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and the ...
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In 1904 the mining population of Rhondda was over 110,000 and still expanding rapidly. Although a 'fever hospital' had been constructed in nearby Ystrad, the threat of smallpox had become a concern to the Medical Officer of Health, who recommended a separate containment site. In 1906 the Health Committee purchased three acres of land at Penrhys ...
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The facility was commissioned to replace Aberdare General Hospital, Mountain Ash General Hospital and St Tydfil's Hospital. [1] [2] It was designed by HLM and built by Vinci Construction at a cost of £70 million and opened in April 2012. [3]